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'''''Noob''''' started out as a French WebOriginal in late 2008 and has mutated into a full fledged cross-media franchise by getting its [[Literature/{{Noob}} first novel]] in 2009, its [[ComicBook/{{Noob}} first comic]] in 2010 and starting the development of a video game the same year. The media, all written by Fabien Fournier, have a BroadStrokes relation to each other, keeping important events in common but varying in the exact way they happened, their connection to each other and/or time periods covered. This franchise has no relation to ''WebComic/TheNoob'' aside from also being set in a {{MMORPG}}.

The story follows the eponymous Noob Guild, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits that is the worst guild of a [[FictionalVideoGame fictional]] {{MMORPG}} named ''Horizon'' (nothing to do with [[LightNovel/LogHorizon the anime]]) in early installments, then can't get rid of their reputation as such even as they make slow but steady progress. The team is mostly held together by the fact that it's near impossible to reach level 100 without being part of a guild, resulting in both TeethClenchedTeamwork and WithFriendsLikeThese. The cast quickly expands beyond the Noob Guild alone as the ambitions held by each of its members make them establish relationships, both good and bad, with other players. These connections, as well as their leader's attention to detail, get the Noob Guild more involved in major game events that one would expect for a low-level guild whose numbers never go beyond seven plus a HonoraryTrueCompanion.

Several cycles are planned. The first one, whose plot starts with Noob's recruitment of Gaea, consists of :* [[Series/{{Noob}} The five-season webseries, that ended in march 2014.]] (the only to have gotten some English translation effort)* [[Literature/{{Noob}} Four novels, the latest of which is situated between Season 5 prologue and episode 1. The fifth, to be released in 2014 or 2015, will be the final one of the cycle.]]* [[ComicBook/{{Noob}} Ten comics, with the most recent release covering a period equivalent to mid-way through Season 3 of the webseries.]] * A video game project started in 2010 and currently in DevelopmentHell.* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEL9Fy7Yve0 An audio episode released in 2012]]

The events seen in the different media are organised in the following rough chronological order :

Several spin-offs are planned. Two of them are available in the form of : * ''[[http://www.blog-de-gaea.com Le blog de Gaea]]'' (Gaea's blog), a series of videos made by Gaea's player for the blog she's frequently mentioned to have.* The first ''Literature/{{Neogicia}}'' novel is available since April 2014 and a comic is in production.

The franchise has a [[Characters/{{Noob}} character sheet]], a [[Recap/{{Noob}} recap page]] and an [[http://wiki.olydri.com/index.php?title=Accueil official wiki (in French ''and'' under construction)]] that gets checked by by the author from time to time. For another work by the same creator, see Series/WarpZoneProject.

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[[folder:Tropes A-M]]* AccidentalMurder: Master Zen's ApplianceDefenestration.* TheAce: Fantöm for the overall game [[spoiler:until Season 3/novel 3/comic 7]], Amaras for the Coalition [[spoiler:and later the entire game]], Spectre for the Order.* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The added value of following as many media as possible frequently hinges on this and its inversion (e.g. not explaining the event the first time it's shown or mentioned, but explaining it in a later depiction).* AnAdventurerIsYou: ** Noob Guild : Nuker (Gaea / Ivy), Tank (Arthéon), DPS (Omega Zell), Healer (Sparadrap / Couette). [[spoiler:Later: Nuker (Ivy), Tank (Spärädräp / [=EarthBuild=]!Couette), DPS (Ystös), Distance DPS (Gaëa), Healer (Sparadrap / Couette).]]** Justice Guild main roster: Nuker (Heimdäl), Tank (Fantöm [[spoiler:/ Saphir while he's absent]]), Buffer (Saphir), Healer (Ystos) [[spoiler:, DPS (Omega Zell)]].** Roxxor Guild main roster: Nuker (Roxana), Tank (Amaras), DPS (Decklan), Healer (Battos).** Relic Hunter Guild: Nuker ([[spoiler:Master Zen]]), Tank (Valentin, presumably as a warrior), Distance DPS ([[spoiler:Nazetrîme]]), Healer (Elyx, presumably as a druid).* AlchemyIsMagic: Bartémulius, Nostariat and Moulinof, that are the best alchemists known in the setting, are shown using powders and sometimes plants to get results that are basically whatever is needed for the plot to advance.* AlliterativeName: Max Middle a.k.a. Fantöm.* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Since elements of ''Horizon'' can be anywhere between a ShoutOut to an existing MMORPG to completely made up, this trope is assured to happen on a regular basis.* ArcWelding: The first novel did this to some episodes of the webseries, making it part of of the ''Horizon'' storyline. When an episode of Season 1 needed to show a character doing a FetchQuest (which happened three or four times out of twenty often stand-alone episodes) the QuestGiver always happened to be InTheHood and dressed in a BlackCloak, something that could easily be normal for the game and/or due to NoBudget. The first novel, chronologically set after the first season, reveals that [[spoiler: the black cloak is actually a trademark for a group that is after the DismantledMacGuffin central to the first novel ; some of the pieces were used as decoration for random objects that they sometimes couldn't go get themselves without attracting attention, hence the fetch quests]].* ArmlessBiped: Smourbiffs.* ApplianceDefenestration: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]: Master Zen, Noob's former Guild Master, landed in prison for accidentally killing someone with a thrown computer monitor. Now he only lives for revenge over the guy whose sheer stupidity led him to flip out and ruined his life.* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever :** The ogre attacking a village in one of the early comic short stories.** Some of the dungeon bosses.** Leviathans, which often attack boats between Piratas and Forpitas.** A 1000m high EldritchAbomination in the fourth novel.** The key keeper from the Echo dungeon in comic 10 is a huge dragon.* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: ** Played with in the [[spoiler:Tenshirock and Judge Dead]] storyline. The webseries explains that the father tried this after the death of his wife, but the two of them happened to have the worse possible personality combination for that kind of thing: WellDoneSonGuy and InferioritySuperiorityComplex. As a result, it just made them grow even more apart. The father decided to secretly go ArchnemesisDad on his son because he considered that better than not interacting with him at all and the son didn't want to talk to him at that point.** The two of them have started going to therapy in ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions'' and their therapist's first reaction to their situation is "have you guys considered board games?". When he realizes that they both like playing ''Horizon'', he tells them to make new avatars in the same faction and play casually.* BattleCry: For each of the factions : "Les ennemis de l'Empire doivent perir" (Enemies of the Empire must perish), "Coalition! Destruction!" and "L'Ordre dominera Olydri! L'Ordre est infini!" (The Order will dominate Olydri / The Order is infinite ; made official in fourth novel).* BlandNameProduct: Such brands appear mainly in the comics. They are rare but not completely absent in the other media.* BroadStrokes: The media are meant to be readable on their own while covering different time periods. As a consequence, things that made up the whole plot in one media installment will be merely mentioned to have happened in another, and get oversimplified, changed and/or have important details omitted so they can get revealed at a time that works better for the in-media storytelling.* CardboardPrison: A character whose backstory explictly includes being recently sent to jail for AccidentalMurder in the webseries and novels has a character sheet [[spoiler:in two of the factions]].* CaughtOnTape: Gloating about being the one behind the [[WhamEpisode Wham Episode / Novel Chapter / Comic]] events in front of someone who regularly makes embarassing videos of one of her guild mates, [[spoiler:especially when you framed her so everyone would think she is responsible for said events]] is a bad idea.* ChildhoodFriends: Gaea and Golgotha.* ClassAndLevelSystem* CombatMedic: Bound to happen in the MMORPG setting. On the Empire's side, Ystos fits the bill best, both because he's actually the best of the game and the two other Empire healers introduced are part of the Noob guild. Only one healer has been introduced in the Coalition and two in the Order (the novels mention that Kary is one too [[spoiler:, which is quite ironic]]).* CommLinks: The game can be set so members of a guild can hear each other without accounting for distance between avatars. Noob and Justice however both have a roleplay practioner as a Guild Master, so the setting is usually on the "off" position unless long-distance verbal communication is essential to make whatever is going on work.* ContinuingIsPainful: Cemetery resurrections involve loss of experience and reputation points, in addition to damage on equipped items. Resurrection stones can keep that from happening, but characters rarely have them around.* CoolMask: Précieux, Heimdäl and Roxana. Ystos starts wearing one in battle in late Season 3 and Tabris has one over the bandages covering his body.* CosmicRetcon: Tabris created one in the third novel and a Season 4 flashback, which is the reason for which [[spoiler:the Source of Chaos is roaming in Olydri]] in the present day in later installments.* CreatorProvincialism: When the residence of a player is mentioned or hinted at, it tends to be in the South-East of France. The known places:** Aix-en-Provence: Gaea and Golgotha** Biscarosse: Ivy** Cuers: Omega Zell** Le Lavandou: Couette** Marseilles: Dark Avenger** Toulon (where creator Fabien Fournier happens to live): Fantöm, Sparadrap [[spoiler:and Ystos who's the latter's younger brother]].* DecapitatedArmy:** According to the novel version of the Centralis battle, one of the things the Coalition needs to do to take Centralis is to kill the Empire's NonPlayerCharacter leader.** Someting similar happens in some battlegrounds for the player randomly chosen to command the troops according to the comic.* DeadCharacterWalking: ''Horizon'' seems to have it as a straight game mechanism. One of Gaea's DirtyCoward tricks is to deliberately stay in that form to avoid withstanding extra damage.* DecadeDissonance: In the webseries, Centralis, the Empire's capital, is a futuristic city in an otherwise Medieval European Fantasy context. Other Empire strongholds are mentioned in the novels, but they're implied to be in the same situation as Centralis in terms of landscape.* DeathDealer: The general idea of the cartomancer class.* DeepImmersionGaming: Exaggerated by being the default situation.* DifficultButAwesome: Seems to be the case of the elementalist class. It starts out as a JackOfAllStats, then the player can choose different paths while keeping minor spells from the other elements : [[GlassCannon fire]], [[TheMedic water]], [[StoneWall earth]] or [[FragileSpeedster air]]. Once at level 100, they can take another specialization, making the number of different combinations no less than six. Roxana, whose ranking among players was never lower than number five during the story, has fire as first and water as second, making her a GlassCannon who can heal herself, while [[spoiler:Fantöm]] made the staying a JackOfAllStats up to level 100 work on his second avatar. [[{{Noob}} Couette]], on the other hand, leveled up as water and switched to earth later. That makes her good at staying alive, but gives her very little damage dealing power; T-Man shows that she can literally be beaten by someone hitting her long and hard enough. In addition, the fact that double specializations work basically as MultiFormBalance means that she has to switch back and forth between being able to heal and being damage-resistant.* DisasterDominoes: The overreaching in-game story is caused by these:** Some time prior to Gaea's arrival, Sparadrap causes Master Zen to get annoyed enough to throw his computer out of the window and accidentally commit murder and end up in jail (that step in itself qualifies for the trope).** [[spoiler:Once he comes back, Master Zen decides to take revenge on his former guildmates by making it look like Gaea posted a compromising video on the Internet.]]** [[spoiler:The video causes the Empire to lose its top player, accused of cheating. The Empire ends up with such a bad reputation among players that many leave the faction in favor of the other ones.]]** [[spoiler:The Coalition tries to destroy what's left of the Empire, the Empire manages to survive despite a Darkest Hour moment.]]** [[spoiler:The Darkest Hour came with an energy drain that set free a [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In a Can]]. Said Evil is now set on [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The End Of The World As We Know It]].]]* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Couette started off as Sparadrap's DistaffCounterpart in all three media, before starting to display bigger attention to her apperance, bigger knowledge of in-game trivia and a much less altruistic behaviour.* {{Deuteragonist}}: The Justice guild main roster (Fantöm's team) eventually becomes this.* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:If this were a physical sports story, Fantöm would have been getting performance enhancement drugs slipped into his drinking water by Donteuil.]]* DramaticIrony: The intended mutual independence of each media can make the same {{Reveal}} or PlotTwist happen up to three times from the point of view of someone following all three.* EconomyCast: Justice is supposed to have something like 200 members, but as far as the story goes, they seem to only ever get help from the Noob guild and occasionally [[SixthRanger Castörga]]. The other 180-something members sometimes get mentioned, but never seen, to the point that quite a few fans think that the Justice guild only consists of Fantöm, Heimdäl, Saphir and Ystos (while Castörga helps as a friend of Heimdäl's). The reverse is also true, with the help the Noob guild can get in a pinch being [[HonoraryTrueCompanion Golgotha]], the Justice guild main roster, or none at all. All other Empire characters last no more than one installment unless they are former of future members of either guild. The Guild of Gaea Admirers has an unspecified number of members, but Meuhmeuh is the only member regularly seen.* EnsembleCast: Equal importance is given to all the members the Noob guild had during the two first seasons of the webseries, the first novel and four fist comics. Once recruited, Ivy becomes a fifth member of the ensemble. The Justice guild main roster eventually became a {{Deuteragonist}} ensemble.* EquipmentBasedProgression: Presumably the case of all level 100 characters. The Justice guild main roster is frequently seen renewing a piece of equipment or another.* FantasticScience: Basically the Empire's niche. The reason the BioAugmentation that creates neomancers works so well is that the new genetic material injected into the subjects comes from the kind of fauna one would expect to find in the world of a fantasy MMORPG and {{Physical God}}s.* FeedTheMole: In the third novel and tenth comic, [[spoiler:Amaras told everyone that he planned to attack Centralis five days later than he really intended to for the benefit of Empire spies. He revealed the real date the evening before it]].* FictionalVideoGame: ''Horizon''. {{Defictionalization}} is a dream of both fans and creator, however.* FrameUp: The franchise-wide WhamEpisode includes the leader of Relic Hunter guild doing this to Gaea.* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: [[spoiler:Sparadrap and Ystos]].* GamingClan: All the guilds seen can be considered to be one. Noob and Relic Hunter guild are so small they contain a single PlayerParty while Roxxor and Justice are hinted to be quite big. * GenderBlenderName: ** Morgan Lavande aka Omega Zell. The feminine version is actually spelled "Morgane", but is still a perfect homophone. And yes, his last name ''is'' French for "Lavander".** Possibly not done on purpose (or just to slide a subtle extra similarity), Gabrielle, Gaea's name, is homophone to the masculine "Gabriel".* GeodesicCast: A direct consequence of AnAdventurerIsYou, that means quite a few four-person teams running around, four of which have been introduced so far (the Noob guild, team Fantöm, team Amaras and Relic Hunter guild). Also justified by the fact four players has also been stated to be both the maximum ordinary dungeons will take (not counting hired help) and the minimum size of parties that can enter special dungeons such as the Galamadriabuyak tower or the Dungeon of Chaos.* GoodColoursEvilColours: There are different colored cursors for the members of each player faction (yellow for the Empire, red for the Coalition, green for the Order). The cursor turns grey if a player get kicked out of their faction, which means they can be attacked by all three. EarlyInstallmentWeirdness gave Game Masters blue ones.** EvilWearsBlack: Mostly averted as long as it's not accompanied by red (that includes the character's cursor). The colour seems quite frequent on assassin outfits if Omega Zell and Ystös/Assassin!Ystos are anything to go by, obligatory for Twilight Warrior armour and some characters are hinted to do it for style. Spectre is the only non-Coalition member playing that trope straight, and that may have to do with his necromancer class, while Tenshirock seems to invoke it.** RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Coalition members are conspiciously more prone to wearing red and black than players of other factions ; when they wear only black, the red comes from the cursor. Also happens to be colors of Gaea's dress starting Season 2.* {{Griefer}}: Basically Relic Hunter guild's reason to be. [[spoiler:Not only that, but the Noob guild is the only one they're after]]. Also fits what Tenshirock would probably be if he were an actual player.* GuysSmashGirlsShoot : Female characters are either the nuker of the healer of their groups. The three notable exceptions are Golgotha, Omega Zellette and Nazetrîme [[spoiler: who is a double subversion because her berserker isn't her real character]]. Saphir is a buffer rather than a [=DPSer=] [[spoiler:before becoming her team's replacement tank]] and [[spoiler: Nazetrîme]] is a DeathDealer. Roxana, Couette and Ivy have been seen getting into hand to hand combat on a single occasion.** Quite a few male characters are shooters also : Sparadrap, Ystos and Battos as healers, Master Zen, Précieux and Heimdäl as mages, and Amaras and Fantöm have distance attacks in their arsenal as Twilight Warriors. That makes both aspects of the trope are downplayed, with the "girls shoot" part closest to being played straight.* HangingJudge: Arthéon has that view of Judge Dead and Game Masters in general. His backstroy had him lose a high-level gaming avatar because it was permanently banned for RealMoneyTrade, which he considers a FelonyMisdemeanor. He now seems conviced that calling a Game Master for one of the problems they're actually supposed to solve will somehow get his new gaming avatar and those of his guildmates banned. The only moment this was ever somewhat justified in the whole franchise was a webseries-only plotline in which his guild ended up with an illegally modified gaming item they couldn't get rid of thanks to TheCracker and had used it several time before discovering what it actually was.* HiddenDepths: This will come into play half the time someone's real life is exposed.* HonoraryTrueCompanion: Golgotha, who won't join the Noob guild due to being a mercenary but hangs around with them ''a lot'' despite this. This is best shown in Season 3 of the webseries when Arthéon needs to be replaced, where stepping in doesn't cross her mind despite perfectly knowing of the situation. However, when Arthéon wants to test a team configuration with Sparadrap as a warrior and Ystos as the healer, she insists on participating and acts surprised she wasn't asked to come along.* HubCity: Implied to be the case for each faction capital. For the Order, Galaé is the only actual town confirmed to still be standing.* ImagineSpotting: In the comic and webseries, both Gaea's YaoiFangirl fantasies and what comes into Sparadrap's mind when he misunderstands things sometimes seem to be visible to their guildmates.* InadvertentEntranceCue: In the webseries and novel versions, [[spoiler:Elementalist!Fantöm]]'s pursuit of a Soulless he's supposed to kill to finish a quest makes him run by the Noob guild members just after they finish discussing the fact that they badly need an extra player.* InferredSurvival: Info from the comics and novels causes a minor case in the webseries storyline. The webseries and novels both make a TearJerker out of the death of [[spoiler:Sparadrap's pets]]. The novel and comics both show that [[spoiler:Arthéon's banned level 100 avatar still exists, he just can't use it]]. Hence, one can find some kind of consolation in the fact that [[spoiler:Sparadrap is actually on his second avatar when his pets are killed, the previous one being banned along with its pets]] in the webseries.* InSeriesNickname: ** In the webseries and comic, thanks to Sparadrap, the Galamadriabuyak tower is also known as the Buyabuyak tower. Thanks to Golgotha, we have Gaga, Arthéfion, l'homme gazelle (literally "the gazelle man"), Sparamoule and Tenshicaillou. Fantöm and Amaras have some too, but they would be GettingCrapPastTheRadar if the franchise had a radar. Just know that French also has a pejorative for homosexuals that starts with "f" (for Fantöm) and that the equivalent to the S-word starts with "m" (for Amaras).** The comic changed Fantöm's to "Fat homme". Couette has "Couic" in the second novel but got called "petit lapinou" (little bunny) in the Dungeon of Chaos arc from the webseries. Ivy got "Hippie" only in the second novel.* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: Gets played with each time a TournamentArc happens. The setting of course makes it a non-lethal variation.** Third comic: Golgotha mentions it would be funny if she and Gaea ended up fighting each other. She ends up fighting Omega Zell instead [[spoiler:but both lose because they end up destroying their respective computers faster than they destroy each other's avatars]].** Season 5 of the webseries: Sparadrap ends up facing one of his guildmates and offers the refusing to fight option, but the guildmate's reaction is basically "Hey, this is a tournament and you're a sitting duck right now, bye-bye". The tournament's finalists end up being [[spoiler:Ivy and Omega Zell]], who are technically allies but happen to not like each other that much.* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The Galamadriabuyak tower, that his necessary to raise the guild's level cap. A PickUpGroup is necessary to get inside for the game's rare solo players.* KeywordsConversation: The [[FictionalVideoGame fictional MMORPG]] in which the franchise is set has a verbal variation. All media show players accepting a quest by telling "quest accepted" to a QuestGiver. The novels focus on this aspect a little more, the first one having Arthéon prononce the name of the LivingMacGuffin as clearly as possible to every single NonPlayerCharacter he runs into in hope of eliciting a reaction. The second novel had Sparadrap blurt out a string of potential keywords instead real sentences when short on time to get a NonPlayerCharacter to follow him.* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fourth novel's cover shows [[spoiler:Gaea with a Coalition cursor]], while the seventh and eigth comic hint at [[spoiler:Fantöm's demise then his joining of the Noob guild]]. Both are spoilers for those somehow avoiding the only freely available format of the franchise.* LostForever: Heavily implied to happen, ''Horizon'' being a MMORPG that regularly gets its setting updated. One set of characters moved from QuestGiver to {{Mook}} in the first novel, while ephemeral quests get mentionned in the comic. There are also secret quests, whose outcome actually influences the game's plot. Once someone finds and accepts them, NothingIsTheSameAnymore.* ManChild: Sparadrap.* MeaningfulName: "Kevin" is an insult meant for younger gamers that sometimes takes the same meaning as "Noob" when the (at least mental) age part of the term no longer applies in one's mind. Before that, it was and still is a very frequent masculine name. With such a fact existing in France, it would have been hard to name Sparadrap something else.** His last name is French for "the pope". That makes his full name a not-so-remote synonym of "the Noob priest".* MeleeATrois: ** The dynamic between the player factions turns into this after the Order gets introduced.** Also the whole point of the battle between Spectre, Fantöm and Amaras in Season 5 finale.* MistakenForBadass: In the webseries and comic, Dark Avenger's sole presence seems to make Sparadrap's luck literally spike. The main consequence is that Dark Avenger is convinced that Sparadrap is displaying ObfuscatingStupidity while everyone else (except Précieux) just sees him as the Noob he is. Gets even worse given that Sparadrap "beats" Dark Avenger mainly when the two are alone. If there are witnesses, they either arrive too late or are Sparadrap's very surprised guildmates, who have no good reason to go tell Dark Avenger's Guild Master and colleagues that he really did get defeated by accident. The trope gets deconstructed by the end of Season 4 of the webseries, as Sparadrap never picks up on what is happening while both Amaras and Roxana get fustrated by the situation.* MostGamersAreMale: Frequently invoked by Omega Zell and played straight in the main cast from the sex ratio bias towards male characters. GamerChick is averted via the significant number of female characters, diverse personalities among them and their presence both at the top (Saphir and Roxana) and the bottom (Gaea, Couette, Ivy and Golgotha).* MythologyGag: Due to the BroadStrokes situation, quite a few inter-media allusions qualify. Detailed lists can be found on the work's respective pages.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]* {{NEET}}: Gets played around with. ** Arthéon is one probably between getting out of boarding school and [[spoiler:getting his job]]. ** [[spoiler:Fantöm]] is this during his time in the Noob guild. His DayInTheLife from the comic explains that the employment office is refusing to help him find a job because his work experience as a professional gamer isn't taken seriously. ** Sparadrap has made himself look like one early on due to his source a revenue keeping him away from his computer for only a very short time each day. * NiceJobFixingItVillain:[[spoiler: In the Season 3 finale / midway through the third novel, the Noob guild ran into team Amaras (minus Amaras himself). Decklan stole the bag containing Sparadrap's pets and Roxana destroyed it Just For Evulz. Cue to it being Sparadrap's Berserk Button. While Heimdäl, Ystos and Saphir seemed to be Just In Time in the webseries, the extra dialogue from the novel reveals that they had time to find the group in part because team Amaras decided to bully the Noob guild instead of just killing them.]]* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The male members of the guild have [[KindheartedSimpleton Sparadrap]] as the nice one, Omega Zell as the mean one (he's quite a jerk even when the misogyny is ignored) and Arthéon as the mediator between the two (much nicer than Omega Zell without lapsing into Sparadrap's StupidGood extreme).* NonCombatEXP: Both exploring and quests have been shown to grant experience points.* NonPlayerCharacter: A few, usually [[YouALLLookFamiliar shopkeepers]] and [[QuestGiver quest givers]].* OneWordTitle* OnlineAlias* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The vast majority of the characters. The real names so far known are those of Fantöm (Max Middle), Arthéon (Stanislas Chatelain), Gaea (Gabrielle Jolivet), Omega Zell (Morgan Lavande), Sparadrap (Kevin Lepape), Golgotha (Catherine Mourru), Ystos (Thomas [[spoiler:Lepape]]), Saphir (Penelope), Couette (Angélique Fleur), Ivy (Fanny Blanchet), Judge Dead (Théodore Saquebien) and Tenshirock. The game creator is the only character only called by his real name. * OnlySaneMan: Arthéon is the most adjusted member of the guild as long as Game Masters don't get involved. The quirks of the other members affect their behaviour on a much more frequent basis. Ivy is a close second when she's awake [[spoiler:and takes the mantle after Arthéon reaches his RageBreakingPoint]].* PerpetualPoverty: Both Gaea in real life and the Noob guild. Gaea has a few money making/saving schemes, but all benefits go into her ''Horizon'' subscription and all the manga-related stuff in her room. The Noob guild is broke in part because of Gaea constantly weaseling her way out of contributing and the only one noticing also being the one who always has a bad word towards her anyway. In addition, the few game credits they have is split between Sparadrap buying useless things and Golgotha deciding she wants to be paid right when the fact that she frequently tags along on her own may actually be useful.** And the previous is just what the webseries mentions, as the novels and the comic make matters even worse : Sparadrap's guild contribution is hinted to be better known as his "feed the pets" fund, Omega Zell's is revealed to be so sporadic that him promising Arthéon to pay without fault each week for a whole year was more than enough to convince the latter to [[spoiler:not make any moves towards inviting Couette into the guild]] during said year.* PetBabyWildAnimal: Baby cochoboules are mentionned to be part of Sparadrap's pet collection in both the novels and comics. Adult cochobules are a recurring enemy in the comic and Gaea has one as her main summon creature.* PickUpGroup: The Noob Guild's most memorable GuestStarPartyMember tried this before joining them in the webseries and novels.* PlayerKilling: Depicted in the webseries and comic, discussed in the novels. Roxana's guild, of which Dark Avenger, Précieux and Papy PK are members, is dedicated to the activity.* PlayerParty: The franchise-wide ones are the Noob guild, team Fantöm (Justice guild), team Amaras (Roxxor guild), Relic Hunter guild. Roxana is seen forming a party with Dark Avenger, Précieux and Papy PK in the eigth comic. Gaea also has a choice of an alternate set of human shields uh... teammates thanks to the existence of Gaea Worshipper's guild.* PointyEars: One of the features distinguishing Syriallians (the people the Order is made of) from other Olydrians. While played straight with [=NPCs=], this is zig-zagged with the players, since a good half of them landed in the faction after a HazyFeelTurn and are used to using an avatar with normal ears.* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Omega Zell thinks that women have nothing to do in {{MMORPG}}s and puts them on the same level as Noobs. It however backfires a lot with the person in charge of his dream guild's admissions being female and the Noob guild getting new female members some time after Gaea joins.* PortTown: Forpitas, whose main purpose seems to be the town from which players go to the Piratas island.* PubliclyDiscussingTheSecret: Happens regularly.** The webseries had Donteuil discussing important matters with other people in-game, where passing-by players could hear him and the other person.** All three media had [[spoiler:Master Zen find out about a certain video]] simply from overhearing a casual conversation between Tenshirock and Gaea.** In ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions'', a certain father-son pair chats around other players and casually mentions its other in-game role. So much for asking the two other people in the know to keep their mouths shut about it in Season 5.* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Noob guild. OnlySaneMan leader with a fear of Game Masters? Check. Self-centered [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynist]]? Check. A ManipulativeBastard and DirtyCoward package deal? Check. StupidGood ManChild? Got that too. May I suggest adding a [[SleepyHead narcoleptic]] MadBomber or a LeeroyJenkins PsychoForHire to your order?* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Some events influenced the writing of the webseries and affected the two other media, some of which with incredibly good timing :** Amandine Tagliavini (Golgotha) was pregnant for most of Season 3, that had the Noob guild go through a couple of temporary seventh members.** Jonathan Fourcade (Arthéon) had to reduce his appearances for Season 3, so the story had him sent off to BoardingSchool. That gave a head start to the Season 4 storyline that involved him starting to neglect the guild. He also lost lots of weight between Seasons 4 and 5, right around the time a radical appearance change would be appropriate for his storyline.** Between Season 3 and 4, Frédéric Zolfanelli (Sparadrap) started losing his hair and one of the solutions to that was to cut it sorter. Sparadrap got a BreakTheCutie moment in Season 3 finale and spent time in charge of the guild in Season 4 [[spoiler:before becoming its official Guild master in the fourth novel and Season 5]].** Season 4 had Rodolphe Toucas (Dark Avenger) [[spoiler:move to China and hence need his character to be Put On a Bus]] right around the time the series was taking a step further in CerebusSyndrome.* RealMoneyTrade: The business of the ''farmerchinois.com'' site and the reason Arthéon's level 100 character got banned.* RecognizableBySound: [[spoiler:In the webseries and novels, when Fantöm first makes his second avatar but tries to play on his own, he runs into the Noob guild. One of its members asks him if he's the real Fantöm (since he could also have been someone copycating the Online Alias and appearance) and he aswers "No" in hope of getting rid of them. Unfortunately, most of the Noob guild knows him just well enough to recognize his voice]].* RedOniBlueOni: Gaea (blue) and Golgotha (red) fit the trope quite well. A case can also be made of Omega Zell being red to Arthéon's blue.* ReferenceOverdosed: "Indeed" in the best way to put the webseries and novels, "WOW" best describes the comic. It can't even be called laziness in background character design when imitating known characters is TruthInTelevision for quite a few MMORPG players.* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the consequences of keeping the timeline overlap to a minimum. The novel is the only media giving Ivy a formal introduction while she appears out of thin air in the webseries and comic. The novels have that happen to Tenshirock and Nazetrîme, who got a proper introduction in the webseries and the comic.* RevealingCoverUp: As pointed out in the novel version of the franchise-wide event, it looks a little suspicious [[spoiler:for Donteuil and Judge Dead to delete Fantöm's avatar the second he was accused of cheating and pin everything on him. The proper thing to do if they had nothing to do with it would have been to open an investigation on the issue. Instead, the outright permanent deletion basically says "we know the accusations are true because we're the guilty party".]]* ReviveKillsZombie* TheRoleplayer: The cumulated info from the media make Arthéon, Heimdäl and possibly the rest of the Justice guild main roster qualify.* RotatingArcs: The later part of the story turns into this due to [[spoiler:the old Noob guild splitting up. After this, Gaea and Arthéon are both doing their own thing, focus on Sparadrap becomes a package deal with New Noob guild focus and something similar happens with Omega Zell and Justice guild's arc]].* ScienceFantasy: Technically speaking. The novels are the only media fully showing it for now.* SeriousBusiness: It's about MMORPG players, what do you expect? There are a few characters that insist on having it just be a fun game to play with your friends, such as Sparadrap.* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Polaris. It's so cold there that ''stopping to move for a few seconds'' can make one freeze.* ShipTease: Despite the lack of official romance outside of [[spoiler:short-lived]] Arthéon / Kary and the almost never mentionned one-sided one between two members of Relic Hunter guild, there are quite a few pairs (both heterosexual and homosexual) that will be far from being StrangledByTheRedString if they happen:** Omega Zell and Fantöm : Supported in-universe by Gaea's YaoiFangirl side and the alternate interpretation of the fact that Omega Zell slips into CannotSpitItOut in Fantöm's presence. WordOfGod stated that Omega Zell is "not homosexual" and Fantöm didn't seem to like the idea of a guy having a crush on him the two times Gaea suggested it. The events of Season 3 altered the situation towards [[spoiler: Fantöm getting along with the Noob guild (and even explicitly considering them true friends in the third book), Omega Zell included]]. In Season 4, [[spoiler: Fantöm not only pressures Saphir to let Omega Zell into Justice guild, but signs him up into its main roster behind her back, under the pretext it gives him the opportunity to pay the Noob guild back for its help]].** Gaea and Golgotha : They're already established as old friends that have known each other since childhood according to the books and comic. A few facts hint to it being more than friendship at least on Golgotha's side between her general overprotectiveness towards Gaea in-game, the fact that she suddenly decided to move in with Gaea (which meant crossing half of France) over loss of in-game contact and her hugging Gaea's arm when they show up at the guild's real-life meeting.[[spoiler: She even seems to easily forgive Gaea killing her in-game and even gets enthuastic at the idea of eventually fighting against her when she joins the Coalition.]] Also, penny-pinching Gaea is letting someone who [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength seems to not know her own strength]] live in her appartement. HeterosexualLifePartners is another possible explanation.** Golgotha and Sparadrap : While she started out apparently as annoyed by his attitude as Gaea and Omega Zell, she clearly has a soft spot for him by Season 2 and claims to miss both him and Gaea when they get kicked out of the game (but has no word for Arthéon that she was somewhat replacing at the time). She also energically cheers Sparadrap on a few select occasaions. Their cooperation during the Season 5 tournament added an extra layer [[spoiler:that included Spardrap putting himself between Golgotha and an enemy blast]]. Add the fact that their actors are a married couple in the mix. ** Golgotha and Omega Zell : While Omega Zell was quite mad at Arthéon for recruiting Couette and Ivy, he never complains when Golgotha joins the group and once asked if she could join him in a quest when nobody else was available. She's also the only person aside of him that seems fully aware of Gaea's excessive greed. When he has to interview a female gamer for his job and Gaea happens to be the closest, the first thing he asks after making sure he's at the right place if Golgotha is present. In the comic, he even states that he considers her to be a man stuck in a woman's body as justification of her not being included in his sexism. Some scenes have them stand next to each other for no apparent good reason, one of which had Omega Zell step away from Golgotha the second Gaea came to hide behind her.** Omega Zell and Gaea : Their general realtionship can be seen as BelligerentSexualTension. While the interview arc makes them meet in real life, the biggest tease they get is in the Season 4 episode during which they have a fight that makes Gaea sound jealous of Fantöm [[spoiler: and Omega Zell leave the guild, which seems to upset her quite a lot]]. Gaea also once suggested Omega Zell that he may like her to tease him. The recurring element not helping is that they have shown to be able to have quite consructive casual conversations when they forget to fight.*** These two are actually becoming somewhat of a FanPreferredCouple. [[http://www2.pixule.com/resultats/203076523666_comment-doit-se-finir-duel-gaea-vs-omega-zell.html This]] survey shows it best : among six outcomes for a [[spoiler:second]] duel between them, the top two answers are [[spoiler:the loser of the first duel]] winning followed by them having a love story.** Omega Zell and Sparadrap: On the blatant end, they once (twice including a crossover with ''Series/FlandersCompany'') ended up in a dancing duet thanks to Tenshirock. Thanks to "gay" commonly keeping its "joyful" meaning in French, Sparadrap claimed to qualify for the latter while Gaea was actually asking Omega Zell if he was the former. On the more subtle end, when Sparadrap had to make a second avatar in Season 2, Omega Zell gave him technical reasons he couldn't join the guild in Arthéon's absence before seeming to come back to his senses and basically telling him to get lost. Later, while feeling lonely, he hallucinated Sparadrap coming to speak to him. In Season 3, Omega Zell called Gaea a horrible person for having a money-oriented reaction to an event that greatly saddened Sparadrap . In Season 4, [[spoiler:Sparadrap considered Omega Zell leaving the guild a bad enough matter to go tell Arthéon in real life while it looks like he only found out about Gaea after Kary having exams enabled him to join Sparadrap for a dungeon]].** Ystos and Fantöm : In Season 3, [[spoiler:he bursts into tears along with Omega Zell when Fantöm's name is prounounced in a quite empty Centralis. Later, he's basically the one who gets Fantöm to start playing again, believes the Noob guild's info that he could be innocent while admitting Saphir and Heimdäl may need solid evidence and welcomes him back into ''Horizon'']]. The new character he creates in Season 4 is a assassin, the class Fantöm was playing before [[spoiler: the first time]] he became a Twilight warrior.** Gaea and Fantöm : Fantöm was in the ad that got Gaea to buy the game and he appears in her YaoiFangirl fantasies. She also seems hung up on blackmailing Fantöm specifically, going up to [[spoiler:getting Omega Zell to interview him for his job, perfectly knowing he'll have to bring her along to ask questions]] to be able to blackmail him again in Season 3 after she was forced to stop in Season 2. Also one of the real life couples from the cast.* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Lost Levels'', a previous series made by Fabien Fournier, in which the game was a virtual reality rather than a classic MMORPG. Among the characters where a top player named Phantom, a ManInWhite named Omega Zell, a magic user named Gaea, a hacker named Tenshirock and a player killer named Dark Avenger. Their ''Noob'' expys go from [[InNameOnly in name (and actor) only]] to someone closer to the ''Lost Levels'' version.* StrawMisogynist : Omega Zell, for the reasons mentioned in PoliticallyIncorrectHero.* {{Stripperiffic}}: Averted with the main characters, but such outfits are shown to exist in the webseries and background characters of the comic confirm it as a possibility.* TheTeam: ** By Season 3 / the third novel / the eighth comic, the Noob guild has six permanent members. *** Arthéon is TheLeader. [[spoiler:Moves to Sparadrap in Season 5]]. *** Omega Zell is TheLancer to Arthéon. [[spoiler:Ivy seems to naturally slip in the role in Season 5, both as the only other member consistently showing up and having a personality complementary to Sparadrap's]].*** TheBigGuy (and usually tank) role has Arthéon, Nazetrîme during her brief tenure, then [[spoiler: Fantöm]] gets hired due to his capacity to fill the role (according to the webseries and novels) despite the opportunity to show it never coming up afterwards. [[spoiler:Sparadrap's warrior (Spärädräp) and Couette's earth build seem to be taking turns at the role in Season 5]]. *** TheSmartGuy (and usually the one who nukes), is shared by Gaea (mostly self-serving planning), Ivy (GadgeteerGenius), Arthéon due to his background knowledge and [[spoiler: Fantöm]] on select occasions. [[spoiler:Only Ivy remains in Season 5 and Gaea gets replaced by her archer reroll]]. *** TheHeart / TheChick role is shared by Sparadrap and Couette, who are also both (sort of) TheMedic. [[spoiler:This is the only position that remains unchanged in Season 5.]] *** TheSixthRanger is naturally Golgotha (who's technically more of a HonoraryTrueCompanion), the closest thing the team has to a second permanent big guy. Couette, qualifies also with her sporadic presence and Ystos is somewhere between this and BigBrotherMentor.** The Justice Guild main roster qualifies for the trope too:*** Heimdäl as TheLeader and TheSmartGuy*** Saphir as TheLancer*** Fantöm as TheBigGuy*** Ystos as TheHeart with elements of TheSmartGuy*** Castörga as the SixthRanger and second Big Guy*** [[spoiler:Omega Zell is for now closer to a Tagalong Kid without the young age]]* TeamTitle* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Fantöm and Spectre seem to have this going on ''for each other''. Fantöm admires Spectre's LivingLegend status and Spectre is impressed by Fantöm's accomplishment's, even though he hasn't reached his own level quite yet.* ThereAreNoTherapists: Implied and played with in a few situations that get developped in the story:** In his backstory, Arthéon seems to have never considered getting therapy in dealing with his [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing mother]]. He did see a few during the period following the loss of his first character, but they didn't help at all and he only got better once his mother got around giving him a little liberty on her own. Later, he gets motivated to run away from his boarding school after his technology illeterate ''and'' phobic principal decides he should go see the school therapist. The development that event gets in the third novel hints that he fears that a therapist would have a [[MurderSimulators negative view of gaming]] that could lead to a wrong diagnosis. He's seen attending a [[TropaholicsAnonymous support group]] for players that lost an avatar to RealMoneyTrade in one of the comic short stories. However, his story is shown to make everyone else realize that their situation could be much worse and leave, while the chairman treats it as a CassandraTruth.** Near the end of Season 5, we find out about a father and his teenage son who's an avid ''Horizon'' player. The wife/mother has recently died, no indication is given of how avid a player the son was ''before'' her death and the father seems to be trying to keep the household together on his own. The father tries to get on his son's good side by creating an ''Horizon'' avatar and only telling him once he's among the top three players, but the son is so embarassed he ends up leaving both the game and home. Only then is the father seen... reading a magazine whose front page article is apparently about abusive practices in psychothereapy. The father then turns out to have diagnosed the condition that possibly lead to his wife's death in one of his guildmates and to have done the effort to go visit him in real life to talk and give him her doctor's number. Considering that these people are [[spoiler: Tenshirock and Judge Dead]] in present day, they could probably both still use that therapy: the finale reveals that [[spoiler:Judge Dead's issue was a good old Inferiority Superiority Complex that his father becoming one of the ''Horizon'' top three only made worse]].*** These two are seen attending family therapy in ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions''.** Master Zen's jail turns out to be either next door or sharing a building with a psych ward. That set-up would in theory give him easy access to a therapist, [[spoiler:but the time he ended up spending there was only just enough to befriend Elyx and not enough to get effective treatment. Elyx is now the closest thing he has to therapist and to her credit, she briefly seemed to have induced some kind of progress in the webseries.]].* TooMuchAlike: Omega Zell is a misogynist and Gaea a woman who doesn't like being demeaned. Gaea, on the other hand, displays behaviours that Omega Zell tends to [[EveryoneHasStandards not approve of in general]]. Aside from this, the two don't get along simply from both being self-centered, ambitious and taking every opportunity they can to bring their goal closer. The situation is such that if one of them has a opportunity to make a big step toward their objective, they (often correctly) assume that the other has the same idea in mind. * TotalPartyKill: Happened to the Noob guild too many times to count.* TournamentArc: One of the comic short stories and part of Season 5 of the webseries.* UltimateGamer386: Fantöm may first look like the trope being played straight. However...** Deconstructed : Fantöm is the fourth player to hold that position since ''Horizon'' got released according to the novels (Mist > Spectre > Amaras > Him). Since Amaras is still around and now number two, he frequently gets challenged by him and got close to losing to him at least once. Also, fear and respect are not the only reactions that the position generates: annoying fans and blackmailers exist too.** Downplayed : The fame aspect is shared with the other members of his party. The "someone one of the main characters already knows in real life" bonus is actually held by one of them rather than by Fantöm himself. Amaras is pretty much Fantöm's Coalition equivalent, and he has a party also. ''And'' Spectre comes back in Season 3.** Justified : For those who know how the story goes, that fact that [[spoiler:the game's creators have been enhancing Fantöm's stats behind his back each time he got in enough trouble to put his number one rank at risk]]. This also deconstructs the trope a little further.* UniqueItems: Mentionned several times to exist. They have so far shown up as rewards for non-repeatable quests or winning the Fluxball cup. Sourcelame is one also, for a very good reason.* VideoGameCaringPotential: Sparadrap cares about his pets [[spoiler:enough to go berserk when they get killed in front of him]] and goes an extra mile by trying be friendly to enemies whose sole purpose is to be killed by players.* WeUsedToBeFriends: Arthéon and the Justice guild, ever since the RealMoneyTrade incident. Saphir seemed to present herself as that one former friend that still speaks to him in an early episode of the webseries, but Ystos is the one who permanently took on that role in all three media.* WhamEpisode: ** The reason the "cover different periods of time" rule gets broken for Season 3, the first half of the third novel and comics seven and following.** [[spoiler:Omega Zell's transfer from Noob to Justice, Gaea's Face Heel turn and Arthéon reaching his Rage Breaking Point]] were all shown onscreen in Season 4 of the webseries while the fourth novel starts about a week after the last of these happens and repearing the damage is already underway.** The novels all take place around one of these for the NonPlayerCharacter part of the story. Three facts had however held true despite this: [[spoiler:Lys and Ark'hen are powerless due to their strength being drained when the Stone of Ages exploded, all neogicians are magic-incapable and the Empire needs the magic from the Sources to keep most of its technology working]]. All three of these status quo stop holding over the course of the fourth novel.** The first episode of Season 5 reveals the OnlineAlias of the other players from Spectre's old Coalition roster besides Amaras: [[spoiler:Ash and Tenshirock]].** The three last of Season 5 each have their own Wham moment: [[spoiler:Tenshirock turns out to be Judge Dead's estranged father who wants to make up with him. He also turns out to be the one who made Spectre stop playing when they were teammates, because the reason for which Spectre is that good is also a threat on his player's health. Finally, Fantöm turns out to have intended to make Amaras win their battle with Spectre all along to make up for the trouble he went through while he was cheated without knowing it]].* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt: Just look at Master Zen's backstory. He names his guild "Noob", ends up having an actual noob in it, said noob end up pissing him off to the point that the infamous ApplianceDefenestration happens ; this is especially strange given that [[spoiler: Master Zen later comes up with a much better name for his new guild]]. Gaea even lampshades the lousy name choice the first time she hears it in the series.** The fourth novel explains that when he named the guild, he was planning to have it reach the top despite the name as a TakeThat to the guilds the refused to recruit him when he started playing. However, there's [[HairTriggerTemper a good reason]] [[BadBoss Arthéon's leadership was an improvement over his]].* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sometimes gets answered by multi media following.* YaoiFangirl : Gaea's imagination tends to run wild when it comes to Omega Zell's hero worship of Fantöm.* YouALLLookFamiliar / WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: More like the love child of these two tropes. The same male NPC seems to run all businesses in Olydri in the webseries and comics. In the webseries, when [[LampshadeHanging asked about it]], he confirms that [[HandWave he's the same guy holding all the jobs at the same time]]. The novels and comic hint that this may be slowly turning into UncannyFamilyResemblance or InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals.* YouALLShareMyStory: The context started out with a OneDegreeOfSeparation pocket that included the Noob guild and the Justice guild main roster, making it quite easy for the two groups to run into each other and by extension their respective acquaintances. The first meeting between team Amaras and the Noob guild occurs from them discreetely following team Fantöm during one of their quests, while other Coalition players become recurring opponents of the Noob guild.* YouWillBeSpared: In all three media, the Noob guild gets that status in Tenshirock's eyes some time after the WhamEpisode.[[/folder]]